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Logs are too easy to accidentally strip of bark

 Irreversibly simply right clicking a block that is already important for building into another is much to easy to accidentally do, or worse yet for someone to do to you as a means of griefing.

It's a bit too obvious of an exploit, I'm all for the stripped logs, but the means of obtaining them has too much potential to be very problematic.

Potential solutions include using shift+right click to strip logs, having to hold down right click to do an animation that strips the logs (not unlike breaking a block), or crafting the log with an axe to get a stripped log.

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    There are a lot worse things that griefers can do, and if you accidentally do it yourself you're probably going to accidentally click one log every once in a while.  One log every once in a while isn't the end of the world to replace.

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    I'm having a difficult time agreeing with you here. Couldn't a griefer do way worse than just strip bark off logs? How about blowing up your house, or stealing your items, or stuffing your place full of obsidian?

    I guess I'm having difficulty understanding the precise context in which this mechanic would be problematic.

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    It is true that a griefer could do much worse. Though the bark stripping I feel is a bit too easy with too little cost, and irreversible. It also has much more potential to be done on accident, just by clicking a single button. Which, come to think of it, is a bit more of a concern about than greifers.

    Whereas TNT must be very deliberate, and even if it explodes, the items can mostly be picked up and replaced.

    Basically my point is that it's a bit too easy, though I would settle for a means to turn stripped logs back into regular logs somehow, though it doesn't make much sense.

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    The one change I'd agree with is making it to where you have to shift+right click to strip logs, just so that it's much harder to accidentally ruin your own house. But that's all I'd be okay with, I think, given that stripping a log is kind of an irreversible process irl.

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    A shift-right-click option would be perfect for PC, but there is no such thing for mobile.

    Thinking about it, I kind of would support changing the stripped logs to a crafting recipe with an axe rather than an in world recipe.  The only input options for mobile are tap (which strips logs, which makes it very very easy to accidentally strip logs) and hold down to break.

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    Yeah, shift+clicking might be a better option for Java than a recipe. Though a recipe would still be a doable option.

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    What if you had to hold right click for a moment? Just like you hold left click for a small time to break the block -- it would play a brief animation before the bark was removed.

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    Holding down right click could also work.

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    or requiring multiple hits to the log to strip it (4?)

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    You could possibly make it require multiple right clicks, but have no cooldown on them, so if you know you want to strip a log you click really fast and get through 8 or so clicks in no time.

     

    Either that or a bark item dropping that we could craft with stripped logs to get normal logs back would be nice. (the bark could also maybe be fuel or maybe work like carpet and can be placed down on top of other blocks)

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    Shift clicking would be annoying for players like me, who are constantly shifting on the edges of blocks to place things in awkward positions. As for holding right click, it could work but it would be annoying when you actually want to strip logs. How about using shears instead of an axe? Or maybe even flint?

     

    Sorry if it's against the rules to necro-post - I'm kinda new-ish here.

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    I see what you're getting at, and I agree with making the process a bit harder to do by accident. After reading a few comments, I'd like future commenters to know that not all griefers want absolute destruction. They have the potential, yes, but it is more fun sometimes for a griefer to slowly drive their victim crazy with constant minor repairs to their house every time they log on to a multiplayer world. Griefers aren't cool, similar things to this have happened to me.

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    I honestly wouldnt mine it be switched to the shears, it would add another use for shears other then "silk touch" for leaves/grass decorative blocks, can still be automated via a dispenser shearing the block in the world with you simply breaking the block/ moving it with pistons. or just make it be reversable (I would make a datapack but since I mostly play on a server I dont have access to adding datapacks at will). its not like the shovel and pathblocks that you just need to break with your fist and place it back down.

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    YES. I want this so much, as accidentally stripping logs is incredibly annoying and potentially costly. Personally, I've almost never used the feature on purpose, but I very frequently accidentally use it since I use an axe instead of a sword.

    For clarification, I am in favor of the Sneak-Click option.

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    I have done this so many times whenever I open and close a door on my house.

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    Here is what I think. You cant strip logs while standing, you must be shifting. I too havr this problem

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    Add a toggle log stripping option like we have toggle auto jump...

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    I personally think that the shift right click idea is good, but the log+axe one is a little too expensive considering that it’s literally just stripped wood.

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    Instead of that the bark should drop as an item when stripped. This can allow the bark to be used in multiple ways; unstripping the logs by putting the bark back on the logs, mixing bark from one wood type with the core of another wood type, bark used as fuel, bark used in recipe to craft cordage.

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    I agree, we should have to hold down/ double click the right button, the same as if you were breaking it.

    It's not a bad idea to use shears, but logically you wouldn't waste a sharp blade on peeling of bark, the idea of crouching is also not bad, but would be difficult for mobile users, overall i think the best solution would be to either hold the right button down ( this doesn't necessarily need to take as long as it does to break a block), or to double-click it, meaning that you couldn't strip a log while opening a door for example.

    To those of you saying that this isn't an issue, i want to point out that no-one is rly saying that it is a MASSIVE problem, but rather it is a simple one, that is especially frustrating because it is such a simple fix. I don't personally have any experience with minecraft griefers, but i can definitely say from personal experience, that if you are irreversibly re-texturing an entire block, it is reasonable to say that it shouldn't be so easy to do.  To sum it up, i think this is a fix that minecraft is very overdue.

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    The issue with the current mean of stripping logs is that on multiplayer servers many people do it accidentally very often, and they simply don't bother to repair other people's builds.
    They wouldn't be the type of player to get out of their way to grief, they just don't bother, and it is very annoying to have to repair your house very often because somebody came around and didn't care.